African honeybee

insect

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characteristics

    origin of Africanized honeybees

    • Africanized honeybee and European honeybee
      In Africanized honeybee: History

      … honeybee that would combine the African bee’s greater tolerance of tropical climates and greater honey productivity with the gentle disposition of the European bees. However, the following year, before the program could begin, several of the African honeybee queens and many drones escaped quarantine at an experimental apiary and began…

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